Scottish geographical magazine . heSaskatchewan Paver, near Carleton, and Prince Albert, a very old Half-breed settlement. THE FEENCH IN TONQUIN. Tonquin history, according to Chinese authorities, goes back to theyear 2879 Tonquin geography, according to Western reckoning,may be said to begin Avith M. Dupuis expedition in the year 1872 , some vague notions of the general character of the county and someknowledge of a more definite kind respecting certain points on the seaboardand in the delta of the great stream of Tonquin, the Song-ka or Eed Eiver,were in possession of Western ge
Scottish geographical magazine . heSaskatchewan Paver, near Carleton, and Prince Albert, a very old Half-breed settlement. THE FEENCH IN TONQUIN. Tonquin history, according to Chinese authorities, goes back to theyear 2879 Tonquin geography, according to Western reckoning,may be said to begin Avith M. Dupuis expedition in the year 1872 , some vague notions of the general character of the county and someknowledge of a more definite kind respecting certain points on the seaboardand in the delta of the great stream of Tonquin, the Song-ka or Eed Eiver,were in possession of Western geographers before the latter of the abovedates. Marco Polo had something to tell about the kingdom of Chiampaand the parts adjoining. His information was not of a kind to encouragesubsequent travellers and traders. Sundry Portuguese and Dutch adven-turers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries visited the coasts of theGidf of Tonquin with a Anew to plunder and possible settlement, and SKETCH MAP OF TONQUIN. ;. C > :H I A ^. TRAN-NINH T 0 X Q U I JT HAINAN \ THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. 171 found, on the Avhole, the native buccaneers a match for them. Early inthe seventeenth century Roman Catholic missionary enterprise, which hassince met with remarkable but intermittent success in this region, firstbecame active in Tonquin; and in 1650 a Jesuit father, De Rhodes,published a map of the country. Not long after, the attention of Franceseems to have been called to it as a field of colonisation. A scheme of thekind appears to have been entertained at one time by Louis xiv. ; but itwas not till a century later, in 1787, that an opportunity came for realisingit. A successful rebellion had driven the reigning King of Annam intoexile ; the head of the French Jesuit mission at Bangkok, Bishop Pigneauxde Behaine, took up the cause of the exile; and, with the aid of Frenchtroops, Gia-long reconquered more than his own again, and assumedthe title of Emperor of Annam. French engineers constr
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